Category Archives: wisdom

Risk and Reward: How the Gospel Empowers Community

One challenge, recognized even by its proponents, of sundry church growth strategies is getting pew sitters engaged and involved. The challenge flows out of the contradiction between what draws people and where we want them to end up. People expect … Continue reading →

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Ask RC: How do you handle times of spiritual dryness?

There is a reason we call mountaintop experiences mountaintop experiences- the very glory of them makes them rare. The top of a mountain is sublime, exhilarating. But you can’t live there. On our journey to the Celestial City we all … Continue reading →

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The Scarlet D: Peter, Past Failures and Reputations

Nobody likes disloyalty. Whether one is a heroic lawman hunting down mafioso or a dastardly mafioso evading a heroic lawman, disloyalty sours the stomach. Incompetence is a frustration. Arrogance is an annoyance. Disloyalty, however, reveals a selfishness, a cravenness so … Continue reading →

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Kids These Days, And All the Other Days

It’s a funny thing about slippery slopes— you can slide down them slowly. The principle behind the concept isn’t that you must move swiftly from here down to there if you have no moral brakes, but that you will move. … Continue reading →

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YOLT- You Only Live Twice: The Life to Come

Though I’m not the first to do so, I’ve long argued that the mark of maturity is to delay gratification. Dave Ramsey puts it this way, first, you live like no one else. That is, you pay off all debts, … Continue reading →

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La, La, La, La, La, I Can’t Hear You- Fingers in Our Ears

The world, Paul tells us, knows what’s coming. Romans 1 not only highlights the universal guilt of all men, but, ironically, defines that guilt as the denial of what we know. We know God is and that we fail to … Continue reading →

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Sacred Marriage; Honor & the Good Life; 1 Point Sermon

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The Other Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

When the world considers the evangelical church they don’t conclude we’re overrun with intellectual rigor. They don’t consider us the sharpest knives in the drawer. God commands us to love Him with all of our minds. He gives us, His … Continue reading →

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Silence of the Shams: Cyberspace Lessons from Middle-Earth

Every new technology seems to raise new ethical questions. What we discover, however, is that the old answers suffice to answer the new questions. Consider the internet. For some of you the internet is as normal as the sunrise. You’ve … Continue reading →

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Our Gratitude and Our Shame in God’s Country

Every few weeks, on my podcast, posted right here every Wednesday, I do a segment called “That 70s Kid.” Therein I give myself free rein to wax nostalgic about those halcyon days. I might talk about the great cereals we … Continue reading →

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